The book of History of states and countries and the antiquities and monuments of ancient people in the World and Islamic region by al-Qaramānī. |If you would like to view the Arabic language description in the AUB catalogue, please go to : https://libcat.aub.edu.lb/record=b2619254Condition: Good condition. The first page is repaired.
An encyclopedic work in history and literature of the Islamic Empire. The author\’s most comprehensive work. Only volume 14 out of all the 46 volumes has been published. |If you would like to view the Arabic language description in the AUB catalogue, please go to : https://libcat.aub.edu.lb/record=b2610184An encyclopedic work in history and literature of the Islamic Empire. The author\’s most comprehensive work. Only volume 14 out of all the 46 volumes has been published. |If you would like to view the Arabic language description in the AUB catalogue, please go to : https://libcat.aub.edu.lb/record=b2610184Condition: First pages are missing. Pages 3-4 are missing, 87 pages are torn.
The Crowns of the honor by al-Rashidi is biographies of pioneers in the Islamic Empire. |If you would like to view the Arabic language description in the AUB catalogue, please go to : https://libcat.aub.edu.lb/record=b2619254Condition: The ink in all pages is fading and the top of the pages are blurring due to the water. The first lines of the first page are not readable.
Poems of savvy and notable scholars |If you would like to view the Arabic language description in the AUB catalogue, please go to : https://libcat.aub.edu.lb/record=b2619142Condition: Good condition.
The book of the Selection of the intellectuals biographies by ibn al-Jawzī. |If you would like to view the Arabic language description in the AUB catalogue, please go to : https://libcat.aub.edu.lb/record=b2619254Condition: The ink in the 17 last pages is fading and the top of the pages are blurring due to the water.
Islamic ways and means to get forgiveness by doing good actions, charitable giving and praying during the month of Ramadan.|If you would like to view the Arabic language description in the AUB catalogue, please go to : https://libcat.aub.edu.lb/record=b2611234Condition: Bad condition. Some pages are repaired. Edges of the manuscript are burned.
Description de l'Arabie d'après les observations et recherches faites dans le pays mêmeby Carsten Niebuhr, translated from the German by F L Mourier.Publication Details: At Amsterdam by S J Baalde and at Utrecht by J Vam Schoonhoven and Company.Physical Description: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xlii); 4º.1 volume (372 pages)The volume contains an alphabetic index with page references. This is found at the back of the volume, following page 372.Dimensions: 285mm x 230mm
Extract from a commentary (شرح) by Abū Isḥāq ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو إسحاق بن عبد الله, fl. mid-sixteenth century) on the
al-Risāla al-Shamsīyah fī al-ḥisāb(الرسالة الشمسية في علم الحساب), a work on arithmetic by Niẓām al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Nīsābūrī (نظام الدين الحسن بن محمد النيسابوري; d. 1328 or 9). A copy of this commentary is found in Oxford, Bodleian MS Selden superius 36.The text has almost no diacritical points.Begins (f. 2v, lines 3-4):فائدة وكثرًا ما يستعمل في الأعمال النجومية المذكورة في الرسمات (؟)وفي غير المجومية أيضًا (؟) كمعرفة سموت البلدان وأبعاد ما بينها بعض من بعضEnds (f. 3v, 16-18):... وذلكنافع لطالب البراهين في الأعمال وصاحب علم القياس (؟) في الأحوالرزقه الله وجميع الطالبينFf. 2v-3v
Abstract: Al-Shamāʾil al-Nabawīyah, a treatise on the sīrah of the Prophet, by Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá al-Tirmidhī (d. 892).Binding note: Unbound.Ms. codex.12 lines per page. Written in elegant large Andalusian Maghribi in brown ink with use of red and blue ink and gold leaf for headings and paragraphs. Text within a triple-line frame ruled in red and blue ink. Catchwords on verso of each leaf. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Extensive marginal notes in at least two different hands. European paper. No titlepage and a portion of the beginning of the text missing. Extensive water and insect damage to the paper, but the text legible throughout.Label in Arabic on fol. 1a: "Raqm 66".Incipit: مالك بن أنس عن ربيعة بن ابي عبد الرحمان عن أنس بن مالك أنّه سميعه يقول كان رسول الله ... ليس بالطويل البائن ولا بالقصير ولا بالأبيض الأمهوقExplicit: حدثنا محمد بن علي قال سمعت ابي يقول قال عبد الله بن المبارك اذا ابتليت بالقضاء فعليك بالاثر حدثنا محمد بن علي اخبرنا النضر اخبرنا ابن عون عن ابن سيرين قال هذا الحديث دين فانظروا عن من تأخذون دينكم ... و الحمد لله اولا واخرا و الصلاة والسلام على صاحب المقام ... وسلم تسليما
Abstract: "Al-Shamāʾil al-NabawīyahAbstract: Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá al-Tirmidhī's (d. 892) work on the sīrah of the Prophet."Binding note: Grey paper over pasteboard. Red fabric on spine. Modern flyleaves and pastedowns in dark cream paper.Ms. codex.Title supplied by the cataloger.16-21 lines per page. Ff. 1a-32b written in casual medium small naskh in black ink with occasional use of red. Ff. 33a-58a written in different hand, in small elegant naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq, and with use of red ink for rubrication. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Some marginal annotations, chiefly at the start, ff. 1-3. Light cream glazed paper with visible laid lines.Incipit:بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين ... اخبرنا الامام الحافظ ابو عىسى محمد بن عيسى بن مسورة الترمذى1أ ... بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله و سلام على عباده الذين اصطفى قال الشيخ الحافظ ابو عيسى محمد بن عيسى بن سورة الترمذى رحمة الله تعالي باب ما جآء فى خلق النبي ... اخبرنا ابو رجاء قتيبة بن سعيد عن مالك بن انس 1بExplicit (fol. 58a):ثنا محمد بن على قال سمعت ابى يقول قال عبد الله بن المبارك اذا ابتليت بالقضاء فعليك بالاثر ثنا محمد بن على ثنا النضر ان ابن عون عن ابى سيرين قال هذا الحديث دين فانظروا عمن تأخذون دينكم تمت
Abstract: History of the conquest of North Africa from Qayrawān to Zāb.Binding note: Modern Western type binding of pasteboards covered with paper.Ms. codex.Title from rubric (fol. 1b).16 to 17 long lines per page. Written in Maghribi script, in brown ink with some use of red and occasional green; with catchwords on the verso of each leaf, and on the recto of each leaf from fol. 7a. European paper. Modern foliation using Western numerals. There is a ḥabūs mark (fol. 109b). Good condition with water staining and some minor insect damage. Some wear on final leaves.Copied by ʻAlī ibn Abī Muʻizz al-Rajrājī on 7 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1140 (colophon, fol. 109b).Incipit: قال وسميت القروان قروان ... عقبة ابن عامر رضي الله عنه نزل بافريقيةExplicit: قال الراوى لهذا الحديث هذا ما وجدنا في السفر١ من فتوح افريقية من بلاد المهدية الى بلاد زاب وفي السفر الثانيمن بلاد زاب الى اخر المغرب ... وكان النصر للمسلمين من فضل الله وبركته ... وصلى الله على نبينا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم تسليما كثيرا كثير.Opening rubric: (هذا تاليف فتوح افريقية من مدينة القروان الى زاب ببلاد طانة (؟
Binding: The volume is bound in a European binding of pasteboards covered with brown leather. The covers have frames formed of two gold fillets. There are five cords on the spine, with two gold fillets either side of each cord. The pastedowns are modern and are blank except for annotations of the manuscript number and a bookplate for St John’s College and E Libris Coll. Di. Jo. Bapt. Oxon. on the back pastedown.Contents note: Annotations by John Greaves (1602-1652), Savilian Professor of Astronomy (1643-8), fols. 12a/b, 13a, 15a.Contents note: Contents described on fol. iii b: Collatio Mensium Arabicorum, Cophticorum, Græcorum, & Judaicorum. Vide pag. 1. ubi habes hunc titulum doctissimi ipsius Pocockij a later hand has crossed out the last two words, and written in pencil: Gul. Laudi manuscriptum. Nec non Tabulæ quædam Astronomicæ. Omnia imperfecta. In margine passim occurrunt Notæ Viri eruditissimi Joan. Grauij, Prof. Astronom. Sauil.Contents note: In item 1, it is evident from numbers placed on each table that there were originally 23, though tables 5–6, 14–15, and 20–1 are now missing and two tables carry the number ‘9’. Ff. 10a/b, 11a and 17b are blank except for frames formed of two black-inked lines.Dimensions: 21.3 × 13.9 (text area 17 × 10.2) cm.Hand: Both items written in a variable (small to medium) Arabic naskh using black and red inks. The text area has not been ruled, but the tables are divided into rows and columns. The texts are written in tables whose cells are delineated by red- and black-inked lines; occasionally there is writing around the perimeter of the table.Layout: The text area has not been ruled, but the tables are divided into rows and columns. The texts are written in tables whose cells are delineated by red and black inked lines; occasionally there is writing around the perimeter of the table. Lines per page vary.Origin note: "No copyist's signature or date(s) or place(s) of copying."Record origin: "Descriptions abbreviated from Emilie Savage-SmithRecord origin: A descriptive Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts at St John's CollegeRecord origin: Oxford (Oxford: Oxford University PressRecord origin: 2005)Record origin: Entries. Nos. 4 and 10Record origin: pp. 19-22Record origin: 41-2."
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldRecord origin: "Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team."
An abridged copy of a history of several Arab dynasties, ending with the Almohads. This volume contains three partial chapters: the end of an abridgement of chapter 1, chapter 2, and the beginning of chapter 3. The text begins and ends abruptly. Chapter 2 (f. 47v-90r) is about the Prophet Muhammad. Chapter 3 starts with the first four Caliphs, continues through the Umayyads (f. 103r-120v), tours briefly through the Abbasid rulers (f. 120v-142v), mentions the Fatimids (f. 143v), then follows up with brief accounts of the Almohad rulers through al-Ḥasan al-Saʻīd ibn Yaʻqūb al-Manṣūr (d. 646 A.H = 1249).
List of names with Coptic numerals (perhaps contributors and their contributions).Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, faded, stainedLayout: 18 lines (recto); various lines (verso)
Recto: accounts in Arabic. Verso: few letters in Hebrew and Arabic.Condition: badly torn, rubbed, badly stainedLayout: 4 lines (recto); various lines (verso)
Accounts of expenditures and income, mentioning dancers, and names such as Abū l-Faḍl, Abū l-ʿAzz and Elijah, with Hebrew, Coptic (?) and Arabic numerals.Condition: torn, holes, slightly rubbedLayout: various lines
Accounts, mentioning names such as Abū l-Faraj Mardūk and Abū Isḥāq, and several sums of money.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, faded, stainedLayout: 15 lines (recto); 14 lines (verso)
Accounts and lists, mentioning prices, weights, currency, place names such as Būṣīr and names such as Ṣalaḥ. Hebrew numerals. Arabic jottings on f. 1r.Condition: torn, rubbed, fadedLayout: 2-16 lines
Accounts and expenditures of the synagogue, including removal of rubbish, the collection of alms (jibāya) and the cantor.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, fadedLayout: 15 lines (recto); 2 lines (verso)
Recto: accounts, obviously written on Arabic scrap paper. Verso: elaborate, fully vocalised Arabic, starting with the basmala, between the Arabic lines Judaeo-Arabic written transversely and upside down.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: numerous lines
Recto: accounts, obviously written on Arabic scrap paper. Verso: elaborate, fully vocalised Arabic, starting with the basmala, between the Arabic lines Judaeo-Arabic written transversely and upside down.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: 13 lines (recto); various lines (verso)